Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission

Margaret Ritchie: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what funding he has allocated to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission for  (a) 2011-12 and  (b) 2012-13; and if he will make a statement.

Hugo Swire: Funding has not been set beyond the end of the current financial year. I expect that they will be set in the coming months, taking into account the implications of the spending review.

Departmental Energy

Tom Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many diesel generators his Department and its agencies have purchased in each of the last five years.

Peter Luff: Diesel generators are procured for a broad variety of requirements across the Department and the information requested is not held centrally. Records indicate that the following generators have been purchased by the Ministry of Defence since 2005, although the majority of this data is not available broken down by year. Purchases by other business areas cannot be ruled out.
	
		
			  Financial year  MOD Diesel Engine Group 
			 2005-06 9 
			 2006-07 10 
			 2007-08 4 
			 2008-09 13 
			 2009-10 17 
		
	
	
		
			  Business area  Total 
			 Battlefield Utilities 3,870 
			 Air Commodities Team 6 
			 Defence Estates(1) 60 
			 Expeditionary Campaign Infrastructure Team 61 
			 DE and S Ships 70 
			 (1) Figures provided cover generators purchased in the UK only. Overseas there are different procurement arrangements and there is no central record. 
		
	
	Additionally, 37 multi-functional aircraft ground support equipments containing a power generation capability along with a number of other functions, to support joint helicopter command battlefield helicopter operations from deployed flying sites, were purchased over the last five years.

Education: Finance

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what grants his Department has made to  (a) the Personal Social Health and Economic Education Association,  (b) the Sex Education Forum of the National Children's Bureau and  (c) the National Personal and Social Education Association for Advisors, Inspectors and Consultants in each of the last five years; how much grant funding is planned for each body in the next two years; what the (i) monetary value and (ii) purpose of each such grant is; and if he will make a statement.

Nick Gibb: The Department has made grant payments to the Personal Social Health and Economic (PSHE) Association over the past five years as follows:
	
		
			   Grant (£) 
			 2006-07 200,000 
			 2007-08 150,000 
			 2008-09 260,000 
			 2009-10 260,000 
			 2010-11 260,000 
		
	
	The purpose of the grant was to support the provision of PSHE in schools; for the first two years (2006-07 to 2007-08) the grant money was paid to the National Children's Bureau (NCB) who hosted the Association.
	The Sex Education Forum (SEF) received grant payments from the Department over the past five years as follows:
	
		
			   Grant (£) 
			 2006-07 143,000 
			 2007-08 143,000 
			 2008-09 158,000 
			 2009-10 156,000 
			 2010-11 116,000 
		
	
	The overall purpose of grant funding for the SEF over the last five years was to support schools in providing sex and relationship education. More specifically in years 2006-07 and 2007-08, £27,000 was allocated to develop guidance and set-up and maintain a support network for health advisers working in drop-in centres in schools and FE colleges. In 2008-09 the grant included funding to cover work related to the previous Government's review of Sex and Relationships Education in schools. Funding for 2009-10 was set at £156,000 to continue the development of networks, promulgate best practice and work towards making PSHE, including Sex and Relationship Education, statutory in the National Curriculum (part of the previous Government's policy). Grant funding for 2010-11 has been provisionally profiled at £116,000.
	The Department has not paid any grants to the National Personal and Social Education Association for Advisors, Inspectors and Consultants over the past five years.
	Grant payments for the next two years have not yet been decided.

Entry Clearances: Overseas Visitors

David Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations she has received on the application process for tourist visas to the UK for those living in China.

Damian Green: UK Border Agency officials are in regular contact with corporate partners in the tourist industry regarding the processing of UK tourist visa applications in various countries, including China. The Agency remains committed to providing a visa service that not only assists UK plc by encouraging genuine visitors, students and business people to come to the UK, but also prevents those who seek to abuse our immigration laws or pose a criminal or security risk from reaching the country.
	The Agency aims to process 90% of general (tourist) visit visas within 15 working days and is currently meeting this target in China. For example, 92% of general visit visa applications lodged at the Beijing visa application centre and concluded in September this year were resolved within 15 working days, with 60% being resolved within 10-days.

Human Trafficking: Convictions

Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been  (a) arrested,  (b) charged,  (c) prosecuted and  (d) convicted in relation to offences related to slavery, servitude or forced or compulsory labour under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.

Damian Green: The information requested is not available.
	The arrests collection held by the Home Office covers arrests for recorded crime (notifiable offences) only, broken down at a main offence group level, covering categories such as violence against the person and robbery. From these centrally reported categories it is not possible to separately identify individual offences.
	Section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 was implemented on 6 April 2010. The most recently available data on court proceedings (held by the Ministry of Justice) is 2008.
	Court data for 2010 will be available in 2011.

Funeral Payments: Kilmarnock

Cathy Jamieson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  how many claimants in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency have received funeral payments in each of the last five years;
	(2)  what estimate he made of the monetary value of funeral payments made to claimants in Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency in each of the last five years.

Steve Webb: The information requested is not available. The number of funeral payment awards and their monetary value are available by Government Office Region or Jobcentre Plus Social Fund budget area only, not by constituency. Because of boundary changes to the areas used to administer funeral payments, comparable data over the last five years is not available at Jobcentre Plus Social Fund budget area level for Scotland. The following table gives information for the Government Office Region of Scotland.
	
		
			  Funeral payments in Scotland 
			   Number of awards  Expenditure (£ million) 
			 2005-06 6,400 6.8 
			 2006-07 6,100 6.8 
			 2007-08 6,000 6.8 
			 2008-09 5,800 6.7 
			 2009-10 5,600 6.5 
			  Note: The number of awards has been rounded to the nearest 100 and expenditure to the nearest £0.1 million.  Source: Department for Work and Pensions Social Fund Policy, Budget and Management Information System

Social Security Benefits: Disability

Charles Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions for what reasons his Department refers to individuals claiming employment and support allowance and other incapacity benefits as customers; and if he will make a statement.

Maria Miller: The Department uses the term 'customer' to reinforce the importance of its relationship with the individuals claiming all types of benefits including, employment and support allowance and other incapacity benefits.
	The Department for Work and Pensions' work to develop and implement a 21st century welfare system is rooted in a professional, customer-focussed relationship, and it is important that the language we use reflects this.
	Research with customers, including those claiming incapacity benefits, indicates that customer-focused language is important-as reflected in the Department's Customer Charter.

Social Security Benefits: Haematological Cancer

Menzies Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what financial support a patient with a poor diagnosis of haematological cancer receives from his Department.

Maria Miller: There are a range of benefits available from the Department to help support people with life limiting conditions and for disabled people, including disability living allowance (DLA) or attendance allowance (AA), employment and support allowance (ESA) as well as housing benefit. An award of DLA can also give rise to a disability premium on out of work benefits such as income support and job seekers allowance.
	A person who has a diagnosis of cancer, and has care and/or mobility needs arising from their disability can claim DLA/AA under the normal rules. There are also special rules which apply to people who are terminally ill and not expected to live for longer than six months. Individuals with such diagnosis are automatically awarded the highest rate of the care component of disability living allowance, even if, at the time of the claim, they have no pre-existing care needs arising from their condition. Similar fast track arrangements exist with employment and support allowance.

Departmental Public Relations

Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the monetary value was of  (a) public opinion research and  (b) public relations contracts awarded by his Department in each of the last five years in each (A) nation and (B) region of the UK.

Edward Davey: The total spent on publicity via the Central Office of Information (COI) and directly with public relations agencies in the last five financial years is:
	
		
			   Total amount (£) 
			  2005/06 DTI Campaigns  
			 Consumer Direct PR-freelance contract 32,694 
			 Consumer Direct PR October 2005 to March 2006 57,447 
			 Consumer Direct PR-MP Event 6,963 
			 Consumer Direct-appointment of PR agency 174,640 
			 DTI Renewable Energy PR 2005/06 137,080 
			 PR support for ACAS DVD 3,645 
			 SBS Enterprising Britain PR 76,240 
			 SBS Interim PR activity 105,786 
			 Total 2005/06 594,495 
			   
			  2006/07 DTI Campaigns  
			 Business Link PR 2006/07 179,113 
			 DTI Gap Analysis 9,071 
			 DTI Renewable Energy PR 2006/07 131,582 
			 SBS Enterprising Britain PR 163,642 
			 Total 2006/07 483,408 
			   
			  2007/08 DTI/BERR Campaigns  
			 Enterprising Britain 172,630.27 
			 Renewable energy 109,326.38 
			 Employing People 30,030 
			 Queen's Awards 17,254.61 
			 Fireworks safety 15,000 
			 Consumer Protection Regulations 73,000 
			 Total 2007/08 417,232.26 
			   
			  2008/09 BERR Campaigns  
			 Employing People 165,596.25 
			 Consumer Protection Regulations 112,142.03 
			 Flexible working 24,733.63 
			 Queen's Awards 19,875 
			 Renewable Energy 2,506.54 
			 Total 2008/09 BERR 324,853.45 
			   
			  2008/09 DIUS Campaigns  
			 Student Finance and Employability 271,610.57 
			 Science (So What? So Everything) 225,000 
			 FE Colleges Week 199,760.31 
			 Climate Change 49,130 
			 Academic Freedom Debates 115,337.50 
			 Total 2008/09 DIUS 860,838.38 
			   
			  2009/10 BIS campaigns (including BERR and DIUS)  
			 Pay and Work Rights 90,000 
			 Family Rights (paternity) 36,000 
			 Consumer Tipping Awareness 31,000 
			 Employing People 219,000 
			 Student Finance and Employability 146,460.86 
			 Science (So What? So Everything) 738,956 
			 Iawards 124,794.49 
			 Employee Engagement 465,862.97 
			 Further Education Colleges Week 170,852.20 
			 Climate Change 11,276 
			 Media Audit 4,000 
			 Informal Adult Learning 208,949 
			 Academic Freedom Debates 35,896.50 
			 Total 2009/10 2,283,048.02 
		
	
	The total spent on public surveys procured through the Central Office of Information (COI) is:
	
		
			   Amount (£) 
			  2005/06 DTI  
			 Consumer Direct 181,650 
			 Renewable energy 23,375 
			 Total 205,025 
			   
			  2006/07 DTI  
			 Renewable energy 14,000 
			 Public attitudes to science research 29,800 
			 Total 43,800 
			   
			  2007/08 DTI/BERR  
			 Omnibus on nuclear attitudes 7,970 
			 Consumer Protection 34,700 
			 Public attitudes to science research 68,100 
			 Pregnancy leaflet awareness 17,100 
			 Renewable energy 14,600 
			 Total 142,470 
			   
			  2008/09 BERR and DIUS  
			 Informal Adult Learning deliberative 59,357 
			 Informal Adult Learning consultation analysis 9,420 
			 Informal Ault Learning mapping 40,000 
			 Evaluation of Adult Learners Week helpline 2008 14,750 
			 Attitudes to Higher Education 11,390 
			 Consumer Rights omnibus research 29,900 
			 Consumer Rights creative development 12,000 
			 Doorstep selling consumer and business research 22,800 
			 Employment Guidance administrative burdens research 178,750 
			 Employment Guidance tracking 79,200 
			 DIUS Business users web research 5,500 
			 Higher Education brand and student finance 59,840 
			 Act on CO2 Students omnibus 5,550 
			 Act on CO2 Students omnibus qualitative research 9,140 
			 Student Finance creative research 42,950 
			 Student Finance tracking 136,100 
			 Student Support-customer satisfaction-England 64,700 
			 Employing People creative testing 12,500 
			 Employing People stakeholder analysis 12,000 
			 National Minimum Wage tracking 2008/9 54,100 
			 Renewable energy consultation analysis 67,000 
			 Nuclear Stakeholder report 30,000 
			 Science branding line 27,610 
			 Directgov Education and Learning Franchise 8,600 
			 Vulnerable Workers campaign creative development 17,800 
			 Vulnerable Workers campaign tracking 55,150 
			 Vulnerable workers hotline proposition development 50,050 
			 Evaluation of public deliberative dialogue 15,000 
			 Social Media 28,335 
			 Internships 9,600 
			 Higher Education and Apprenticeships 85,000 
			 Attitudes to Skills Accounts 50,850 
			 Stakeholder research 65,580 
			 Total 1,370,522 
			   
			  2009/10 BERR and DIUS  
			 Consumer Rights tracking study 32,100 
			 Summary report on Consumer Rights omnibus 400 
			 Public perception tracking 2009 19,550 
			 Public perceptions tracker 38,475 
			 Vulnerable Workers helpline campaign pitch research 25,550 
			 Vulnerable Workers helpline tracking 75,400 
			 Vulnerable workers helpline creative development research 25,750 
			 Skills Accounts 36,600 
			 Graduate Internship campaign tracker 11,525 
			 Graduate Communications campaign 49,300 
			 Vehicle Scrappage scheme 48,700 
			 Employment Law advice 117,000 
			 Graduate Talent Pool registered employer research 32,850 
			 Science (So What? So Everything) campaign test 19,500 
			 Consumer Tipping Awareness omnibus 5,785 
			 Stakeholder surveys 75,250 
			 Small Medium Enterprises stakeholder research 56,800 
			 Total 670,535 
		
	
	Public relations contracts were awarded for national campaigns in England and Wales and cannot be broken down by region or city. Detailed information regarding the coverage of public opinion surveys is not readily available as the coverage of most of these surveys was not specific to any region.

Regulation

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills when he expects his Department's review of new regulations to be concluded; and if he will make a statement.

Mark Prisk: In the Budget the Government announced plans for reducing the regulatory burdens on business, including the introduction of a one-in-one out system for new regulations and a fundamental review of all regulation inherited from the previous Government scheduled for introduction over the coming year. These regulations will not be implemented until they have been reviewed and re-agreed by the Reducing Regulation Cabinet Committee.
	This review is on-going and an announcement will be made once it has been completed.

Students: Loans

Michael Crockart: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what percentage of graduates are making repayments on their student loans to the Student Loans Company  (a) one,  (b) five and  (c) 10 years after completing university.

David Willetts: As student loans mature, increasing numbers of borrowers fully repay. For example by April 2010 39% of the 2000 cohort and 16% of the 2004 cohort had fully repaid. The table shows the proportion of those who remain liable to repay who made repayments during the relevant tax year. Borrowers with fluctuating earnings may make repayments in some years and not others, so for example some of those not repaying in the fifth year after leaving higher education may have made repayments in previous years.
	Borrowers are not required to make repayments when they are earning less than £15,000 per year. Repayments are collected through the tax system, so generally borrowers cannot default.
	
		
			  Percentage of student loan borrowers making repayments( 1) 
			  Repayment cohort( 2)  Percentage repaying in first tax year after leaving higher education  Percentage repaying in fifth tax year after leaving higher education 
			 2000 34 42 
			 2001 37 46 
			 2002 45 59 
			 2003 51 64 
			 2004 53 66 
			 2005 46 - 
			 2006 46 - 
			 2007 47 - 
			 2008 51 - 
			 (1) The table covers borrowers who received loans as English domiciled students studying in the UK or as EU students studying in England. It shows borrowers making repayments in the relevant tax year as a percentage of borrowers with an outstanding balance at the start of that tax year. It covers repayments known by SLC at 30 April 2010. (2) Borrowers are placed in a repayment cohort according to when they first became liable to repay, which is in the April after they graduated or otherwise left their course.  Source: Student Loans Company 
		
	
	Income contingent loans were introduced in 1998 and the first repayments were made in 2000. As 2000 is the first repayment cohort, consistent separate data for those who left higher education after 10 years is not yet available. Figures relate to student loan borrowers regardless of whether they are graduates or not.
	The first two repayment cohorts are atypical as they only comprise borrowers on short courses and those who left university before completing their courses. The first repayment cohort containing graduates from three year courses is the 2002 cohort.
	From April 2005 the earnings threshold at which borrowers are required to make repayments was raised from £10,000 to £15,000. This explains the lower percentage repaying in the first year from the 2005 cohort onwards.

Dental Services

Stephen Gilbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he plans to take to implement the proposals on the engagement of consultants in dental public health and dental practice advisers in the development of new arrangements for NHS dentistry as referred to in his Department's White Paper on Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS.

Simon Burns: The White Paper 'Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS' refers to creation of a NHS Commissioning Board and a new public health service, to integrate and streamline existing health improvement. The NHS Commissioning Board will take on responsibility for commissioning national health service primary dental services, while the primary care trusts' responsibilities for local health improvement will transfer to local authorities. Local authorities will employ the director of public health jointly appointed with the public health service. To discharge their functions and responsibilities, both the public health service in local authorities and dental service commissioners will need appropriate advice and input from dental public health consultants, dental practice advisers and their teams, working with local clinicians.

Departmental Grants

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what grants his Department has made to  (a) Brook,  (b) the fpa and former Family Planning Association,  (c) Marie Stopes International,  (d) the British Pregnancy Advisory Service,  (e) Education for Choice and  (f) the Terrence Higgins Trust in each of the last three years; how much grant funding is planned for each body in the next two years; what the (i) monetary value and (ii) purpose of each such grant is; and if he will make a statement.

Anne Milton: The Department does not provide grant funding to Marie Stopes International, or the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. The amount of grant funding and purpose of each grant for the other organisations requested is shown in the following table:
	
		
			  Department of Health Section 64/ Third Sector Investment Programme (TSIP) 2009-12 
			  £ 
			  Name of organisation  Purpose of grant  2008-09  2009-10  2010-11  2011-12( 1)  2012-13( 1) 
			 Brook Section 64 Core (infrastructure support) 86,000 0 0 0 0 
			 Brook Third Sector Investment Programme Development of Regional Capacity Project 0 138,006 106,000 84,800 0 
			 fpa Section 64 Core (infrastructure support) 130,000 0 0 0 0 
			 fpa Third Sector Investment Programme Sustainable Futures Project 0 140,000 105,000 70,000 0 
			 Terrence Higgins Trust Section 64 Core (infrastructure support) 220,000 0 0 0 0 
			 Terrence Higgins Trust Third Sector Investment Programme Sustainable Futures Project 0 154,000 121,000 80,000 0 
			 Terence Higgins Trust Third Sector Investment Programme National HIV Long Term Conditions Project 0 0 75,000 75,000 75,000 
			 Education for Choice Third Sector Investment Programme promoting and supporting a continuum of care around pregnancy pathways for young people, project 0 27,500 27,500 27,500 0 
			 (1) All awards from April 2011 are subject to the outcome of the spending review.

Non-departmental Public Bodies

John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the statement of 14 October 2010,  Official Report, columns 505-06, on public bodies reform, how many staff are employed by the Alcohol Education and Research Council; how many such staff will be transferred to  (a) his Department and  (b) new bodies; how many such staff will be made redundant; and what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of redundancy payments for these staff.

Anne Milton: The Alcohol Education Research Council (AERC) employs three staff.
	The reforms to the AERC were announced in the report of the arm's-length bodies review, published in July 2010. As set out in the review, the AERC will be abolished as a non-departmental public body and remain as a charity.

Non-departmental Public Bodies

John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the statement of 14 October 2010,  Official Report, columns 505-06, on public bodies reform, how many staff are employed by the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence; how many such staff will be transferred to  (a) his Department and  (b) new bodies; how many such staff will be made redundant; and what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of redundancy payments for these staff.

Anne Milton: The reforms to the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence were announced in the report of the arm's-length bodies review, published in July 2010. During 2009-10, the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence employed an average of 18.7 full-time and part-time staff, including temporary staff (annual report and accounts 2009-10). We do not expect that any staff will be transferred out of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence or made redundant as a result of these reforms.

Non-departmental Public Bodies

John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the statement of 14 October 2010,  Official Report, columns 505-06, on public bodies reform, how many staff are employed by the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS; how many such staff will be transferred to  (a) his Department and  (b) new bodies; how many such staff will be made redundant; and what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of redundancy payments for these staff.

Anne Milton: The Expert Advisory Group on AIDS do not employ staff, therefore there will be no redundancies or associated redundancy costs. The secretariat for the committee is provided by the Health Protection Agency. A secretariat function will continue to be provided for the reconstituted committee of experts.

Non-departmental Public Bodies

John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the statement of 14 October 2010,  Official Report, columns 505-06, on public bodies reform, how many staff are employed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; how many such staff will be transferred to  (a) his Department and  (b) new bodies; how many such staff will be made redundant; and what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of redundancy payments for these staff.

Anne Milton: The reforms to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority were announced in the report of the Department's arm's-length bodies review, published in July 2010. As of 13 October 2010 there were 83 staff in post. Further work is required to plan for implementation of the reforms before estimates of staff transfers and redundancies can be made and of the costs involved.

Non-departmental Public Bodies

John Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the statement of 14 October 2010,  Official Report, columns 505-06, on public bodies reform, how many staff are employed by the Human Tissue Authority; how many such staff will be transferred to  (a) his Department and  (b) new bodies; how many such staff will be made redundant; and what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of redundancy payments for these staff.

Anne Milton: The reforms to the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) were announced in the report of the Department's arms length bodies review, published in July 2010. The HTA has a staffing complement of 67 full-time equivalent members of staff. As of 15 October 2010, there were 45 staff in post. Further work is required to plan for implementation of the reforms before estimates of staff transfers and redundancies can be made and of the costs involved.

Non-departmental Public Bodies

Derek Twigg: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the statement of 14 October 2010,  Official Report, columns 505-06, on public bodies reform, what the functions of the Alcohol Education and Research Council are; which of these functions are to be retained; and which bodies he proposes to have responsibility for fulfilling these functions.

Anne Milton: The Alcohol Education and Research Council (AERC) was established as an Executive non-departmental public body via the Licensing (Alcohol Education and Research) Act 1981.
	The AERC has charitable status and administers a fund of around £8 million to support research into the prevention of alcohol-related harm. The Department does not provide funding for this arm's-length body.
	As set out in the Department's report of the Arms Length Bodies Review, the AERC will be abolished as a non-departmental public body and remain as a charity.

Respiratory Diseases

Yasmin Qureshi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will take steps to include a lung function test within the NHS Healthcheck.

Simon Burns: The purpose of the NHS Health Check programme is to identify an individual's risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and diabetes. The tests used in the NHS Health Check are based on economic modelling undertaken by the Department to ensure it is clinically and cost-effective. We continue to keep the components of the NHS Health Check under review as new evidence emerges.

Cancer

John Baron: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office 
	(1)  what the mortality rate was for each type of cancer in people aged  (a) 49 years and under,  (b) 50 to 59 years,  (c) 60 to 69 years, ( d) 70 to 79 years and  (e) over 80 years in (i) each cancer network, (ii) each primary care trust and (iii) England in each of the last five years;
	(2)  what the incidence was of each type of cancer in people aged  (a) 49 years and under,  (b) 50 to 59 years,  (c) 60 to 69 years,  (d) 70 to 79 years and  (e) over 80 years in (i) each cancer network, (ii) each primary care trust and (iii) England in each of the last five years;
	(3)  how many people aged  (a) 49 years and under,  (b) 50 to 59 years,  (c) 60 to 69 years,  (d) 70 to 79 years and  (e) over 80 years were diagnosed with each type of cancer in (i) each cancer network, (ii) each primary care trust and (iii) England in each of the last five years.

Nick Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
	 Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated October 2010:
	As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent questions asking:
	1. What the mortality rate was for each type of cancer in people aged (a) 49 years and under, (b) 50 to 59 years, (e) 60 to 69 years, (d) 70 to 79 years and (e) over 80 years in (i) each cancer network, (ii) each primary care trust and (iii) England in each of the last five years.
	2. What the incidence was of each type of cancer in people aged (a) 49 years and under, (b) 50 to 59 years, (c) 60 to 69 years, (d) 70 to 79 years and (e) over 80 years in (i) each cancer network, (ii) each primary care trust and (iii) England in each of the last five years.
	3. How many people aged (a) 49 years and under, (b) 50 to 59 years, (c) 60 to 69 years, (d) 70 to 79 years and (e) over 80 years were diagnosed with each type of cancer in (i) each cancer network, (ii) each primary care trust and (iii) England in each of the last five years.
	The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2007, while the latest figures for mortality are for the year 2009. However, since the latest available population estimates for primary care organisations and cancer networks (required to calculate rates) are for the year 2008, all mortality rates have been provided up to 2008.
	Question 2 above requests figures on 'incidence... [for] each type of cancer', which is the same as 'how many people... were diagnosed' (question 3). Question 2 has the therefore been interpreted as meaning incidence rates.
	To supply mortality rates, incidence rates and incidence numbers for all types of cancer for (i) each cancer network, (ii) each primary care organisation and (iii) England in each of the last five years could only be done at disproportionate cost. Therefore, figures have been provided for the four most commonly diagnosed cancers: breast (women), colorectal (bowel), lung and prostate.
	Age-specific rates have been provided for England, using the age groups as specified in the questions above. Age-standardised rates have been provided for cancer networks and primary care organisations, since numbers were too low to calculate cancer-specific , age-specific rates for all age groups, for all areas.
	Table 1 (i) provides the age-standardised mortality rate for breast (women), colorectal, lung and prostate cancer, for each cancer network in England, for the years 2004 to 2008.
	Table 1 (ii) provides the age-standardised mortality rate for breast (women), colorectal. lung and prostate cancer, for each primary care organisation in England, for the years 2004 to 2008.
	Table 1 (iii) provides the age-specific mortality rate for breast (women), colorectal, lung and prostate cancer, for persons aged (a) 49 years and under , (b) 50 to 59 years, (c) 60 to 69 years, (d) 70 to 79 years and (e) over 60 years , for England, for the years 2004 to 2006.
	Table 2 (i) provides the age-standardised incidence rate for breast (women), colorectal, lung and prostate cancer, for each cancer network in England, for the years 2003 to 2007.
	Table 2 (ii) provides the age-standardised incidence rate for breast (women), colorectal, lung and prostate cancer, for each primary care organisation in England, for the years 2003 to 2007.
	Table 2 (iii) provides the age-specific incidence rate for breast (women), colorectal, lung and prostate cancer, for persons aged (a) 49 years and under, (b) 50 to 59 years, (c) 60 to 69 years, (d) 70 to 79 years and (e) over 60 years , for England, for the years 2003 to 2007.
	Table 3 (i) provides the number of newly diagnosed breast (women), colorectal, lung and prostate cancers, for each cancer network in England, for the years 2003 to 2007.
	Table 3 (ii) provides the number of newly diagnosed breast (women), colorectal, lung and prostate cancers, for each primary care organisation in England, for the years 2003 to 2007.
	Table 3 (iii) provides the number of newly diagnosed breast (women), colorectal, lung and prostate cancers, for persons aged (a) 49 years and under, (b) 50 to 59 years, (c) 60 to 69 years , (d) 70 to 79 years and (e) over 60 years , for England, for the years 2003 to 2007.
	Copies of all tables have been placed in the House of Commons Library.

Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority: Contracts

Ian Liddell-Grainger: To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, which companies, other than Calyx (UK), responded to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority's invitation to tender for the provision of infrastructure and enterprise software support; and what criteria were used determine which respondee was awarded the contract.

Charles Walker: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. I have asked IPSA to reply.
	 Letter from Andrew McDonald to Ian Liddell-Grainger:
	As Interim Chief Executive of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking for information on the companies who responded to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority's invitation to tender for the provision of infrastructure and enterprise software support; and what criteria were used to determine which respondee was awarded the contract. (17618)
	The companies that responded to the invitation to tender for the provision of infrastructure and enterprise software support were:
	Computacenter (UK) Ltd
	Insight Direct (UK) Ltd
	Probrand Ltd
	Calyx (UK) Ltd formed part of the Insight Direct (UK) Ltd tender.
	Information on the assessment criteria applied during this process has already been provided in our answer given in respect of a previous question on 12 October 2010,  Official Report, column 258W.

Departmental Consultants

Pete Wishart: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was spent on external consultants and advisers  by (a) his Department and  (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) executive agency for which his Department is responsible in each year since 2005.

Justine Greening: Details of spending on external consultants for the Treasury and the Debt Management Office is shown in table 5 of Annex A to the Treasury's 2009-10 resource accounts, which is available from
	www.hm-treasury.gov.uk
	The Asset Protection Agency, which was set up on 7 December 2009 spent £1,856,000 in 2009-10 on external consultants. There was no such spending by the Royal Mint Advisory Committee.

Departmental Training

Pete Wishart: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what training has been provided for Ministers in his Department since the formation of the present administration; and at what cost.

Justine Greening: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Member for Horsham (Mr Maude) to the hon. Member for West Bromwich East (Mr Watson) on 3 June 2010,  Official Report column 51-52W. The National School of Government are funded through its Core Learning programme to deliver induction and other training to Ministers, and there is no separate charge to Departments.
	HM Treasury Ministers have not received training from any other providers.